Newbie asking for a recommendation - in a weird way

Hi.
I'm new here, and although I like fragrances a lot, I'm not familiar with most brands and the jargon.

So, here's my question. I want this fragrance:

I want a fragrance that invokes a feeling of vastness. Open, dry. Cool.
Like a mountain plateau. Transparent, lucid. Misty. Breezy.
In one word, vast.

Musically, an electric guitar with lots of swelling notes, a lush double bass going between rhythm and sentences, drummer going to town on the cymbals setting the texture, and an airy, reverbed trumpet.
Like Terje Rypdal's Skywards, If mountains could sing, or a bit like pink floyd's marooned.

Like I said I don't know the terms and ingredients well.
The only ingredient I can think of is a pot of black tea brewed yesterday. Dirt, ozone, dry grass...

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What a great first post and a great way to ask for a suggestion! Very very creative. I love it!

I'll expand on this later but my first thoughts are, in order of relevance:

Amouage Ciel Man - bright blue skies, sunshine. That transcendent feeling of coming back to life when the first spring-like day visits after a long and cold winter. The scent is crisp and slightly cool without being cold. Perhaps a bit brighter and more upbeat than the picture you have posted, however. If a bright sun was in the corner of the painting, this would be the perfect match. If I ahd to ascribe color to this scent, I'd say it is a blue to silver gradient from topnotes to base.

Creed Green Valley - verdant green grass over the creed ambergris base. The first half of the scent is quite close to the picture you've posted, in my minds eye, although not so much the second half. Worth a sniff though. I don't have enough experience with this one to elaborate more, but the little experience I do have suggests it may fit the bill.

M. Micallef "White Sea" - a hazy and cool scent composed primarily of lime, iris, violet and sweet patchouli. This is hazy and almost foggy in nature. Not particularly dry though - this too has a certain wetness to its composition. This scent does, in my mind's eye, evoke similar feelings as Pink Floyd's "Marooned" (I absolutely LOVE that song).

Six Scents "Wicken 3000" - epitomizes a feeling of vastness. Open, and cool, but more wet than dry. This might be like viewing the scene in your post through a telescope, while you're 500 miles out to sea. Extremely minimalist. Also evokes similar feelings to "Marooned" - although almost in a slightly more futuristic way. Marooned in space, perhaps.

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Russian Caravan Tea by CB I Hate Perfumes

You're along for the ride with the nomads in their caravan and they made an overnight stop somewhere overlooking the vast plains. The weather is cool, the air misty with morning dew. Seems like a perfect time for that hot fragrant cup of tea...

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I definately visualise scents, so your painting there is a great way of describing what you want!

I'm not so well versed in men's fragrances, but I second Galamb_Borong's suggesting of a vetiver. Vetiver/vetyver/vetivert/khus can be dry grassy with a touch of warm exotic woods and in pure form has a light cooling effect, like menthol. Reminds me a lot of your image.

Out here we are running for the wide open spaces, the road-smell after the rain.

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Welcome to Basenotes!

When I saw your painting, the first fragrance I thought of was Il Profumo – Vetiver De Java.

It’s airy and transparent feeling, yet complex with luxurious-smelling citrus and lavender as top notes, very gradually fading into a woody-mossy base that is reminiscent, to my nose at least, of a cool damp meadow after a rain with a fresh breeze blowing across it. (…can you tell I love this one? ) I would definitely describe it as “vast”.

I see your painting as meadows after a spring storm has passed, leaving them fresh and full of life and color, yet with the feeling that more storms are yet to come with the shadows in the foreground. It’s a great contrast between what we think of as “gloom” and “vibrancy”, and representing the “vastness” of constant change in the universe.

“I wanna say something. I’m gonna put it out there. If you like it, you can take it, if you don’t, send it right back…."

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For a twist, try Cirrus by Amouage, or Silver by Amouage. While nsamadi's suggestions capture much of the earthy grit and green notes of the image, these couple are more in line with the open air and crisp coolness without the calone and overdose of common synthetics that can plague a scent.

Another that came to mind that might fit it is Bond No. 9 Central Park.

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While I think there are a lot of good green recommendations here, I don't think many/most of them fit with the feeling evoked by Pink Floyd's Marooned. I just want to specify that a number of my earlier recommendations were not very green oriented, but instead aimed to evoke that sense of a vast and almost foreboding openness, the sense of truly being marooned.

Another scent that may fit the bill that features both a cool, almost frosty green nature, along with a haziness, with hints of dirt and minerals, is Les Nez The Unicorn Spell. I would actually rate this at the top of my recommendations.

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The Cumming is not for newbies, as it has a rubber and chlorine note in there. It doesn't last that long, but then there is the white truffle (or whatever it is) that dominates on my skin, and I wouldn't think of it as an expansive landscape kind of frag. It's rather "alien," in a sense, so I would think of it as good for a landscape on a different planet! LOL.

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My first though upon looking at that is Lalique's Encre Noire. I get the green, but also a cold, distant harshness of the nature. sort of like a serious take no prisoners power. That frag is barren, no warmth or light. not a knock on the frag, just my feeling looking at that pic

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Originally Posted by SculptureOfSoul

Creed Green Valley - verdant green grass over the creed ambergris base. The first half of the scent is quite close to the picture you've posted, in my minds eye, although not so much the second half. Worth a sniff though. I don't have enough experience with this one to elaborate more, but the little experience I do have suggests it may fit the bill.

My first thought was Green Valley.

My second - Garrigue by Maître Parfumeur et Gantier. Although the picture (and your description), seem a lot colder and misty. Garrigue gives me dry, openness, somewhat salty and rather dirty. It smells to me like being pulled through some shrubs, dipped in the sea and left to dry in the heat.

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Some really good recs here.... you know what though? As silly as it sounds, Green Irish Tweed fits the picture really well.

Bel Respiro, Bois de Violette, Silver Mountain Water, Brin de Reglisse, Iris Silver Mist, Apres L'Ondee, Mitsouko, Sel de Vetiver, Sous le Vent, Angeliques sous la Pluie could work well too. Sorry, I don't have to time to elaborate on all of these, or why I think they fit the description, but a quick peek at the reviews on BN will give you a good idea of what to expect.

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This thread is a great. I agree with others that this is a very original way of seeking a fragrance.

Giving it some more thought, Miller Harris' Fleurs de Sel came to mind, too. Curiously salty, dry, herbal fragrance, and as it's not a full-on aquatic per se, it's as suitable to vast inland expanses as the salt march it's meant to depict.

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Thanks to everyone for your overwhelming suggestions and welcome.
I'll try to read reviews and test as much of these as I can.

It seems vetiver is the most obvious element for this fragrance. That I will keep in mind as well.

Leto, it's nice to see an istanbulite here. I can't seem to find a local shop that carries Creed, and it's not really "good old" for me personally. If it's possible I'd appreciate if you'd help me test it.

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Originally Posted by N_Tesla

When I saw your landscape with all that grass I thought at once of Vent Vert. If you can find it you will see it matches the picture you posted just fine.

I wish I could get some Vent Vert. (tried, but the stockist was out.) ... I think the reform of Guerlain Vetiver is close... if I had my own background/landscape in mind it would be a layering of GV over Yatagan... for the dryness over the greenness. But Yat is too strong, really. (and Mistuoko is too warm, IMO.)